Contempt petition-1945-2017-SCI-Order-07092018
Contempt petition-1945-2017-SCI-Order-07092018
Contempt petition-1945-2017-SCI-Order-07092018
4 SECTION XIV
S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A
RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS
VERSUS
(IA 48898/2018-INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT,
89724/2018-INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT)
WITH
CONMT.PET.(C) No. 1922-1923/2017 in C.A. No. 6950/2009 (XIV)
(FOR impleading party ON IA 37941/2018
FOR INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT ON IA 37941/2018
FOR EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. ON IA 37942/2018
FOR impleading party ON IA 70459/2018
FOR INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT ON IA 70459/2018)
Digitally signed by
NARENDRA PRASAD
Date: 2018.09.08
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CONMT.PET.(C) No. 814/2018 in C.A. No. 6950/2009 (XIV)
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CONMT.PET.(C) No. 1330/2018 in C.A. No. 6950/2009 (XIV)
CORAM :
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KURIAN JOSEPH
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KISHAN KAUL
Mr. S. Nandakumar,Adv.
Mr. P. Vasu,Adv.
Mr. M.P. Srinivasa Rao,Adv.
Mr. M.S. Saran Kumar,Adv.
Ms. Deepika Nandakumar,Adv.
Mr. Sugam Kumar Jha,Adv.
Mr. Ram Dhan Singh Narwal,Adv.
Mr. Naresh Kumar, AOR
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Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, AOR
Mr. Anurag Bhardwaj,Adv.
Mr. Pramod Kumar,Adv.
Mr. Jitendra Kr.Adv.
Mr. Prashant Kr. Singh,Adv.
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The Award has been finally upheld by this Court in the judgment
rendered in Tamil Nadu Terminated Full Time Temporary LIC Employees
Association v. Life Insurance Corporation of India and Others,
reported in (2015) 9 SCC 62.
Mr. K.K. Venugopal, learned Attorney General for India
appearing for the respondents/LIC, submits that for want of
documents/materials, the LIC is not in a position to verify as to
who are the actual beneficiaries of the Award. Learned counsel
appearing for the Union(s) and the individual workers, however,
would submit that despite producing the records and despite
availability of the original records with the LIC, no positive
decision is taken by it.
Faced with such a situation, we are of the view that the CGIT,
New Delhi should look into the matter with regard to the claims
made by the Union(s)/individual workmen, regarding entitlement to
the benefits under the Award and submit a report to this Court.
Accordingly, we direct the CGIT, New Delhi to look into the claims
made by the Union(s)/individual Workmen and submit a report to this
Court within three months.
There is also a dispute raised by some of the respondents that
the benefit of Award should be made available to those who have
been engaged as Badli workers after 4.3.1991. That is a matter for
interpretation by this Court. For the time being, CGIT, New Delhi
would limit its enquiry only to the claims of the Badli workers
between 20.05.1989 and 04.03.1991, as already indicated by this
Court in the order dated 11.05.2018.
We do not find that it is a case of contempt. Therefore, the
contempt notices are discharged. However, the
applications/petitions be kept pending for the purpose of necessary
assistance to the Court.
List on 12.12.2018.